US President Joe Biden has secured a deal on an infrastructure package worth about $1tn to spend billions of dollars to upgrade roads, bridges and broadband networks over the next eight years.
The agreement with a bipartisan group of senators falls short of the $2.3tn infrastructure spending plan announced by Biden in March and does not address the $1.8tn in social safety-net spending that the US president proposed in April.
But it represents a big milestone for Biden, who vowed to use his decades of experience as a senator from Delaware to work with Republicans and defy the polarisation that has become endemic to US politics.
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